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Setting up the Background Image for the House Environment
First, use curves to make the image pop more that it does originally. Then on a new layer, I used a green paint brush with the opacity...
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Mar 19, 20211 min read
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Photoshop Compositing
After rendering the image, open the background in photoshop and create a copy of it (so if anything goes wrong the original will still be...
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Mar 19, 20211 min read
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Placing the Drone and Setting the Shadow Catcher and Lighting
After finishing with the perspective match, place the drone in position and then create a plane underneath it. Create a Corona Shadow...
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Mar 19, 20211 min read
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Perspective Matching
After finishing in Photoshop, open 3DS Max and open the materials editor. place the image as a bitmap in the materials editor and tick...
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Mar 19, 20211 min read
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Removing the Car in photoshop
For my flying vessel composition, I wanted to replace my drone with the car. So before using the image in 3DS Max to perspective match, I...
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Mar 19, 20211 min read
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Making the Clouds
The first step is to use the gradient tool to make the background colour. Then open up the brush settings and set the brush to 50 ,...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
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Making the Wicker Texture on the Chairs Around the Fire Pit
In Photoshop, the first step is to fill he background in white with the fill bucket. Then use the rectangle tool to make a rectangle in...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
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Texturing the Plants
I create the plant texture in Photoshop, to do this I used the gradient tool and used a dark green for the middle and a light green for...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
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Texturing the Sofa
First I had to make the linen texture so I started off by filling the background grey with the fill bucket in photoshop. Then I added...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
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Texturing the Books
To get the texture of the book, I got an image a book cover and applied it to the book cover and used the UV unwrap to place the texture...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
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Texturing the Blu Ray case
To get the blue plastic texture on the case, I set the diffuse to 1 and gave it a dark blue colour, the reflection level to 1 with the...
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Feb 12, 20211 min read
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Texturing the T.V. Remote
To create the button textures, go to photoshop and create the text that will be on the button as seen in the first image. Then in 3DS...
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Feb 12, 20211 min read
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Texturing the Sofa
To create a Linen material texture, fill the background with a colour using the fill bucket (I went for grey) and add some noise and keep...
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Feb 12, 20211 min read
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Texturing the Drinks and Coasters
For the drinks the standard settings I have for both are: Diffuse: 0 Reflection: 1, glossiness: 1 and Fresnel IOR: 1.33 Refraction: 1,...
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Feb 12, 20211 min read
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Texturing the Fruit Bowl
To texture the fruit bowl, Go to Volumetric scattering and set the colours in the absorption colour and scattering colour (I set the...
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Feb 3, 20212 min read
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Texturing the Coffee Table
To make the grunge map which I used on the surface of my coffee table, Download grunge paint brushes and load them into photoshop. From...
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Feb 3, 20211 min read
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Texturing the Curtains
Get a fabric texture (I used Quixel to get mine) and apply the diffuse to the diffuse, the gloss map to the reflect glossiness and turn...
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Feb 3, 20211 min read
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Texturing the Windows
When texturing the windows, I wanted a similar aluminium texture for the window frames as seen in the first image. To achieve this, set...
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Feb 3, 20211 min read
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Texturing the Walls
For the walls, get painted wall texture (I downloaded mine off of Quixel) and apply it to the diffuse, the roughness to the reflection...
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Feb 3, 20211 min read
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Photoshop
Open the render in Photoshop, add a background colour (either black or white) then add the Ambient Occlusion (set it to multiply) and if...
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Jan 29, 20211 min read
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